Comments | mustangalley: This is why I want to go to grad school.

mustangalley

This is why I want to go to grad school.

Feb 07, 2009 17:34

http://jcs.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/121/11/1771

Read this. It's an article entitled The Importance of Stupidity in Scientific Research, and was published in The Journal of Cell Biology (one of my personal favourites, thank you major).

It's possibly the best explanation of what I feel like I'm doing in school. I get confused, I poke at it and ( Read more... )

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labsquint February 8 2009, 14:02:57 UTC

I LOVE this article. We found it around the time that it came out and for a long time it hung on the main board in the lab. Kind of reminded us why we do bench science and how to do bench science at it's most basic level. And if that's what it does for you as well, then you are definitely meant to join us on the bench...

mustangalley February 8 2009, 14:35:09 UTC

Bench science has always been my first love. Medicine never really interested me because the people drive me absolutely BATTY. But bench science? It's like opening Christmas presents every day!

labsquint February 9 2009, 02:38:09 UTC

whats bench science?

mustangalley February 9 2009, 03:17:10 UTC

Hey! not entirely sure who you are (feel free to introduce yourself in a PM or e-mail if you want, no worries if you don't!), but I'll try to explain ( ... )

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